Moral and didactic literature

Bijelo prijestolje

Bijelo prijestolje

Josip Cvrtila

A novel set in contemporary life in which the author follows the fates of members of the rural intelligentsia, their ideals, moral dilemmas, and everyday struggles in Croatian society between the two wars.

Hrvatsko književno društvo Sv. Jeronima, 1933.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
6.24
Brak bez ljubavi

Brak bez ljubavi

Claude Ferval

Claude Fervel's novel Marriage Without Love depicts a marital drama in which spouses live in an emotionless marriage, faced with boredom, frustration, and moral dilemmas typical of bourgeois society.

Naklada "Hrvatskog lista", 1942.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
3.54
Brodkovski odvjetnik: Slika iz savremenog moravskog života

Brodkovski odvjetnik: Slika iz savremenog moravskog života

Vaclav Beneš Šumavsky

"The Brodkov Lawyer" by Václav Beneš Šumavsky is a realistic novel about a lawyer, social conditions, morality and everyday life in Moravia. Popular Czech fiction in Croatian translation.

Tisak i naklada knjižare Janka Dujaka, 1894.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
9.38
Čipke

Čipke

Štefa Jurkić

Lace (1929) by Štefa Jurkić is a romance novel with a Catholic message. A young heroine in France, through love and suffering, experiences conversion and finds meaning in her faith, inspired by the legend of St. Teresa.

Hrvatsko književno društvo Sv. Jeronima, 1929.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
9.52
Čudovište iz predgrađa

Čudovište iz predgrađa

Franz Herwig

The novel The Monster from the Suburbs, published in 1936 by the Spiritual Youth Association in Senj, is a contemporary legend that explores the psychological and social aspects of life in urban suburbs.

Zbor duhovne mladeži, 1936.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
7.56
Cvijeće sreće moraš saditi sam

Cvijeće sreće moraš saditi sam

Phil Bosmans

Poetic fragments of a Belgian priest who, with the power of spiritual authority, spread the influence of his interesting movement (Union without names) all over the world.

Kršćanska sadašnjost, 1999.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
9.387.50
Cvijet pod staklom

Cvijet pod staklom

Antun Matasović

"Flower Under Glass" by Antun Matasović is a collection of short stories, presenting the early stories of the Slavonian Catholic writer with motifs of family, love, everyday life and moral dilemmas. A classic regional reading between the two wars.

Vlastita naklada, 1921.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
11.48
Drugovi I-II

Drugovi I-II

Tone Seliškar

A collection of short stories that follow the lives of young people, mostly pupils and students, during and after World War II, with an emphasis on their ideological struggle, maturation, and development of awareness of social changes.

Veselin Masleša, 1962.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
The book consists of two volumes
6.32
Germanin ideal

Germanin ideal

Marie Montal

Young Germaine lives a life filled with high ideals of love, faith, and purity. The novel follows her struggle between her noble dreams and the realities of life in French society at the end of the 19th century.

Tisak i naklada Antuna Scholza, 1905.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
8.32
Hrvatska uvijek katolička

Hrvatska uvijek katolička

Juraj Kocijančić

Croatia Always Catholic (1940), a popular-historical and apologetic book by a Samobor parish priest that proves the thousand-year Catholic loyalty of the Croatian people, from the time of their immigration until the 20th century.

Hrvatsko književno društvo Sv. Jeronima, 1940.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
11.26